* collectd is able to collect the following data:
- apache
- Apache server utilization: Number of bytes transfered, number of
+ Apache server utilization: Number of bytes transferred, number of
requests handled and detailed scoreboard statistics
- apcups
APC UPS Daemon: UPS charge, load, input/output/battery voltage, etc.
- apple_sensors
- Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fanspeed and
+ Sensors in Macs running Mac OS X / Darwin: Temperature, fan speed and
voltage sensors.
+ - aquaero
+ Various sensors in the Aquaero 5 water cooling board made by Aquacomputer.
+
- ascent
Statistics about Ascent, a free server for the game `World of Warcraft'.
+ - barometer
+ Using digital barometer sensor MPL115A2 or MPL3115 from Freescale
+ provides absolute barometric pressure, air pressure reduced to sea level
+ and temperature.
+
- battery
Batterycharge, -current and voltage of ACPI and PMU based laptop
batteries.
- dns
DNS traffic: Query types, response codes, opcodes and traffic/octets
- transfered.
+ transferred.
+
+ - drbd
+ Collect individual drbd resource statistics.
- email
Email statistics: Count, traffic, spam scores and checks.
Receive multicast traffic from Ganglia instances.
- hddtemp
- Harddisk temperatures using hddtempd.
+ Hard disk temperatures using hddtempd.
- interface
Interface traffic: Number of octets, packets and errors for each
Detailed CPU statistics of the “Logical Partitions” virtualization
technique built into IBM's POWER processors.
- - libvirt
- CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
-
- lvm
Size of “Logical Volumes” (LV) and “Volume Groups” (VG) of Linux'
“Logical Volume Manager” (LVM).
interfaces that use the Atheros chipset and the MadWifi driver.
- mbmon
- Motherboard sensors: temperature, fanspeed and voltage information,
+ Motherboard sensors: temperature, fan speed and voltage information,
using mbmon(1).
- md
Read onewire sensors using the owcapu library of the owfs project.
Please read in collectd.conf(5) why this plugin is experimental.
+ - openldap
+ Read monitoring information from OpenLDAP's cn=Monitor subtree.
+
- openvpn
RX and TX of each client in openvpn-status.log (status-version 2).
<http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html>
See collectd-python(5) for details.
- redis
- The redis plugin gathers information from a redis server, including:
+ The redis plugin gathers information from a Redis server, including:
uptime, used memory, total connections etc.
- routeros
to have its measurements fed to collectd. This includes multimeters,
sound level meters, thermometers, and much more.
+ - smart
+ Collect SMART statistics, notably load cycle count, temperature
+ and bad sectors.
+
- snmp
Read values from SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) enabled
network devices such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack monitoring
servers, etc. See collectd-snmp(5).
+ - statsd
+ Acts as a StatsD server, reading values sent over the network from StatsD
+ clients and calculating rates and other aggregates out of these values.
+
- swap
- Pages swapped out onto harddisk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
+ Pages swapped out onto hard disk or whatever is called `swap' by the OS..
- table
Parse table-like structured files.
- tail
- Follows (tails) logfiles, parses them by lines and submits matched
+ Follows (tails) log files, parses them by lines and submits matched
values.
- tail_csv
- varnish
Various statistics from Varnish, an HTTP accelerator.
+ - virt
+ CPU, memory, disk and network I/O statistics from virtual machines.
+
- vmem
Virtual memory statistics, e. g. the number of page-ins/-outs or the
number of pagefaults.
can be configured to avoid logging send errors (especially useful when
using UDP).
+ - write_tsdb
+ Sends data OpenTSDB, a scalable no master, no shared state time series
+ database.
+
- write_http
Sends the values collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST
requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
+ - write_kafka
+ Sends data to Apache Kafka, a distributed queue.
+
- write_mongodb
Sends data to MongoDB, a NoSQL database.
plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
- logfile
- Writes logmessages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR.
+ Writes log messages to a file or STDOUT/STDERR.
- perl
Log messages are propagated to plugins written in Perl as well.
- syslog
Logs to the standard UNIX logging mechanism, syslog.
+ - log_logstash
+ Writes log messages formatted as logstash JSON events.
+
* Notifications can be handled by the following plugins:
- notify_desktop
values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
- uuid
- Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups
+ Sets the hostname to a unique identifier. This is meant for setups
where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going
through one or more name changes in the process.
time starting up again and again. With the exception of the exec plugin no
processes are forked. Caching in output plugins, such as the rrdtool and
network plugins, makes sure your resources are used efficiently. Also,
- since collectd is programmed multithreaded it benefits from hyperthreading
+ since collectd is programmed multithreaded it benefits from hyper-threading
and multicore processors and makes sure that the daemon isn't idle if only
one plugin waits for an IO-operation to complete.
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* collectd's configuration file can be found at `sysconfdir'/collectd.conf.
- Run `collectd -h' for a list of builtin defaults. See `collectd.conf(5)'
+ Run `collectd -h' for a list of built-in defaults. See `collectd.conf(5)'
for a list of options and a syntax description.
* When the `csv' or `rrdtool' plugins are loaded they'll write the values to
* A POSIX-threads (pthread) implementation.
Since gathering some statistics is slow (network connections, slow devices,
- etc) the collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being
+ etc) collectd is parallelized. The POSIX threads interface is being
used and should be found in various implementations for hopefully all
platforms.
+ * aerotools-ng (optional)
+ Used by the `aquaero' plugin. Currently, the `libaquaero5' library, which
+ is used by the `aerotools-ng' toolkit, is not compiled as a shared object
+ nor does it feature an installation routine. Therefore, you need to point
+ collectd's configure script at the source directory of the `aerotools-ng'
+ project.
+ <https://github.com/lynix/aerotools-ng>
+
* CoreFoundation.framework and IOKit.framework (optional)
For compiling on Darwin in general and the `apple_sensors' plugin in
particular.
Used by the `oracle' plugin.
* libcredis (optional)
- Used by the redis plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version
+ Used by the `redis' plugin. Please note that you require a 0.2.2 version
or higher. <http://code.google.com/p/credis/>
* libcurl (optional)
- If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `curl', `nginx', or `write_http'
- plugin.
+ If you want to use the `apache', `ascent', `bind', `curl', `curl_json',
+ `curl_xml', `nginx', or `write_http' plugin.
<http://curl.haxx.se/>
* libdbi (optional)
<http://www.gnupg.org/>
* libhal (optional)
- If present, the uuid plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
+ If present, the `uuid' plugin will check for UUID from HAL.
<http://hal.freedesktop.org/>
+ * libi2c-dev (optional)
+ Used for the plugin `barometer', provides just the i2c-dev.h header file
+ for user space i2c development.
+
* libiptc (optional)
For querying iptables counters.
<http://netfilter.org/>
- If not found on the system, a version shipped with this distribution can
- be used. It requires some Linux headers in /usr/include/linux. You can
- force the build system to use the shipped version by specifying
- --with-libiptc=shipped
- when running the configure script.
-
* libjvm (optional)
Library that encapsulates the `Java Virtual Machine' (JVM). This library is
- used by the Java plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with
+ used by the `java' plugin to execute Java bytecode. See “Configuring with
libjvm” below.
<http://openjdk.java.net/> (and others)
+ * libldap (optional)
+ Used by the `openldap' plugin.
+ <http://www.openldap.org/>
+
+ * liblvm2 (optional)
+ Used by the `lvm' plugin.
+ <ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/>
+
* libmemcached (optional)
Used by the `memcachec' plugin to connect to a memcache daemon.
<http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
+ * libmnl (optional)
+ Used by the `netlink' plugin.
+ <http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/>
+
* libmodbus (optional)
- Used by the “modbus” plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
- “modbus” plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
+ Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
+ `modbus' plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
API changes other versions may or may not compile cleanly.
<http://www.libmodbus.org/>
<http://dev.mysql.com/>
* libnetapp (optional)
- Required for the “netapp” plugin.
+ Required for the `netapp' plugin.
This library is part of the “Manage ONTAP SDK” published by NetApp.
- * libnetlink (optional)
- Used, obviously, for the `netlink' plugin.
- <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2>
-
* libnetsnmp (optional)
For the `snmp' plugin.
<http://www.net-snmp.org/>
For the `notify_desktop' plugin.
<http://www.galago-project.org/>
+ * libopenipmi (optional)
+ Used by the `ipmi' plugin to prove IPMI devices.
+ <http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/>
+
* liboping (optional)
Used by the `ping' plugin to send and receive ICMP packets.
- <http://verplant.org/liboping/>
+ <http://octo.it/liboping/>
* libowcapi (optional)
Used by the `onewire' plugin to read values from onewire sensors (or the
* libprotobuf-c, protoc-c (optional)
Used by the `pinba' plugin to generate a parser for the network packets
- sent by the Pinba PHP extension.
+ sent by the Pinba PHP extension, and by the `write_riemann' plugin to
+ generate events to be sent to a Riemann server.
<http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
* libpython (optional)
<http://www.python.org/>
* librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)
- Used by the AMQP plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
+ Used by the `amqp' plugin for AMQP connections, for example to RabbitMQ.
<http://hg.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-c/>
+ * librdkafka (optional; also called “rdkafka”)
+ Used by the `write_kafka' plugin for producing messages and sending them
+ to a Kafka broker.
+ <https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka>
+
* librouteros (optional)
Used by the `routeros' plugin to connect to a device running `RouterOS'.
- <http://verplant.org/librouteros/>
+ <http://octo.it/librouteros/>
* librrd (optional)
Used by the `rrdtool' and `rrdcached' plugins. The latter requires RRDtool
To read from `lm_sensors', see the `sensors' plugin.
<http://www.lm-sensors.org/>
+ * libsigrok (optional)
+ Used by the `sigrok' plugin. In addition, libsigrok depends on glib,
+ libzip, and optionally (depending on which drivers are enabled) on
+ libusb, libftdi and libudev.
+
* libstatgrab (optional)
Used by various plugins to collect statistics on systems other than Linux
and/or Solaris.
<http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/>
* libtokyotyrant (optional)
- Used by the tokyotyrant plugin.
+ Used by the `tokyotyrant' plugin.
<http://1978th.net/tokyotyrant/>
* libupsclient/nut (optional)
<http://libvirt.org/>
* libxml2 (optional)
- Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent' and `libvirt' plugins.
+ Parse XML data. This is needed for the `ascent', `bind', `curl_xml' and
+ `virt' plugins.
<http://xmlsoft.org/>
* libxmms (optional)
<http://www.xmms.org/>
* libyajl (optional)
- Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' plugin.
+ Parse JSON data. This is needed for the `curl_json' and `log_logstash'
+ plugins.
<http://github.com/lloyd/yajl>
* libvarnish (optional)
- Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the Varnish plugin
+ Fetches statistics from a Varnish instance. This is needed for the
+ `varnish' plugin.
<http://varnish-cache.org>
Configuring / Compiling / Installing
For questions, bug reports, development information and basically all other
concerns please send an email to collectd's mailing list at
- <collectd at verplant.org>.
+ <list at collectd.org>.
For live discussion and more personal contact visit us in IRC, we're in
channel #collectd on freenode.
Author
------
- Florian octo Forster <octo at verplant.org>,
+ Florian octo Forster <octo at collectd.org>,
Sebastian tokkee Harl <sh at tokkee.org>,
and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').
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